GEOG 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wild Grass, Appalachian Mountains
9 Feb 2017
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The central lowlands: central trough between distant mountain ranges, between the alleghenies and the rocky mountains. The great west: 1832 pittsburg is one of the most active, bustling points of the great. Not a (cid:449)ester(cid:374) (cid:272)ity (cid:271)y today"s sta(cid:374)dards. Renamed the middle west from the west after the civil war. Split into middle west and frontier west: frontier west stretched from missouri to the rocky mountains. Bou(cid:374)ded (cid:271)y : ohio river to the east, missouri river to the west, great north woods to the north, forest and prairies. Forests in ohio: almost entirely forest in early 1800s and previously, had to clear land to settle and move westward. Forest and prairie in indiana: forest land began to break up, grassland and prairie lands. Prairie in illinois and beyond: trees in river valleys or islands in the prairie grasslands mainly, rich plain without trees and covered with grass.
